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Firemen battle huge fire at Golden Gate Fair in San Francisco, California

Firemen battle a blaze engulfing the California Building at the Golden Gate Fair in San Francisco, California. Firefighters extinguish fire with jets of water in front of the burning building. Flames break out in a section of the structure. Some firemen stand on the roof while they direct streams of water and smoke billows upward.

Location: San Francisco California USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Italian
Clip: 65675041001
Showing coastline at Monterey Bay.

Shows California coastline at Monterey Bay. View of Pacific Ocean waves hitting the cliffs and rocks on the coast of California.

Location: California United States USA
Date: 1940, April
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675039409
The film 'Meet The Fleet' shows Potter, Benson and Dan arriving as new recruits at the Naval Training Center in San Diego.

The film 'Meet The Fleet' shows young recruits at the Naval Training Center in San Diego, California. Opening scenes show the U.S. battleship USS Pennsylvania (BB-38). A Marine bugler, in dress blues,blows a call. He is followed by a Navy bosun's Mate who pipes the call, for all hands on deck. Sailors run to assemble on deck and stand inspection by ship's officers. Scene then shifts to the flag pole at the Naval Training Station for recruits, at San Diego, California, where the American flag is being raised. Recruits in white uniform stand saluting in the background. New young recruits arrive in a military truck. They get down from the vehicle with their baggage. A dramatization shows recruits looking around. They follow an officer. Potter from Kansas, wealthy Benson (actor George Reeves), and poor Dan introduce each other.

Location: San Diego California USA
Date: 1940
Duration: 2 min 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Color
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064963
Judge Louis E. Goodman dismisses Justice Department's civil action to denaturalize ILWU President, Harry Bridgers.

Opening scene shows dimly lit hallway of Federal District Court building in San Francisco. Camera focuses on a courtroom door inscribed as " U.S. District Court, 258, Louis E. Goodman." Officials are seen escorting International Longshoreman's Union (ILWU) President, Harry Bridgers, along a hallway, accompanied by many photographers. Bridger's lawyer, Carol Weiss King and her co-counsel, wearing dark rimmed glasses, are seen standing in the hallway. Closeup of them. He holds up a copy of legal papers. View from further down the hall as Bridgers stops briefly to converse with them. Another closeup of Bridger's lawyers. (Note: Harry Bridgers was prosecuted for his labor organizing and supposed subversive status by the Justice Department in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, with the goal of deportation. This was never achieved. Bridges became a naturalized citizen in 1945. A final effort by the Justice Dept. to deport Bridges ended in 1955 when Judge Louis E. Goodman dismissed the department's civil action to denaturalize him)

Location: San Francisco California USA
Date: 1955, July
Duration: 1 min 5 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675037528
Los Angeles scenes including downtown, Hollywood area, La Cienega area homes with oil derricks in background.

Pedestrians crossing busy intersection in downtown Los Angeles in 1950. South La Cienega area in Los Angeles shows several small houses and numerous oil well derricks in view. Close up of Los Angeles oil pumping derrick. View of city and vehicular traffic on street in Hollywood with various late 1940s and 1950 cars and trucks passing by. Elevated, sweeping panoramic view of part of Hollywood in Los Angeles, with hills in background, and Hollywood sign seen in the distance, faintly.

Location: Los Angeles California USA
Date: 1950
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675041961
Ocean flooding causing destruction in a coastal area of California

Wind and waves pound a shore in California. A man stands near areas of a boardwalk that have been ripped up by the weather near ocean front homes. He looks over a seawall. View near an ocean inlet, where water floods the beach. A virtually destroyed structure teetering over the water. A lunch stand overturned and washed up against rocks. Closeup of the lunch stand with two men nearby. View from damaged home with a chair floating nearby. Severely damaged houses falling into the water. A Fletcher class U.S. destroyer underway offshore. A large ship run aground. Three men in a small boat pulling up to her. Other men are aboard the ship and working on her. Men ashore on a rocky beach, examine a small sail boat and a power boat driven aground. Cars are parked on a flat bluff in the background. A high hill dominates the far background. Two women stand in a sailboat washed up on a rocky shore. Closeup of a power boat and dingy on the rocky beach. Men tilt the dingy up revealing its bottom broken open.

Location: California
Date: 1940
Duration: 50 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Spanish
Clip: 65675038835
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